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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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HappyBivouac
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Played for many hours today, got to Phys 10/Conjurer 10. I absolutely love this game. It's a distinctly different feeling than the early days of ff11 were, but I like it a lot. This is very much its own game doing its own thing, and I'm extremely interested in seeing where they take it.
One thing: being able to teleport all over the world on my very first day of playing is just crazy to me. As much as I am an advocate of exploration, I think I like the ease of transportation in this game.
One thing: being able to teleport all over the world on my very first day of playing is just crazy to me. As much as I am an advocate of exploration, I think I like the ease of transportation in this game.
By the way, if you're an armorer, make these:
http://www.ffxivcore.com/wiki/Bronze_Hoplon
Nice early rank shield. That and the bronze mitt gauntlets.
Hey, could someone do me a huge favor?
Would someone mind making a second character on Mysidia/Gridania so they could hold all my stuff while I start a new guy?
Already got the template made, so just need to give you my stuff, delete the character, and remake him with the new template.
Additional character slots are free during the 30 day trial period, so you just need to add one and remove it when we're done.
As payment, I'll make a character on your world and do the first mission of your nation, and give you all the reward money.
Would someone mind making a second character on Mysidia/Gridania so they could hold all my stuff while I start a new guy?
Already got the template made, so just need to give you my stuff, delete the character, and remake him with the new template.
Additional character slots are free during the 30 day trial period, so you just need to add one and remove it when we're done.
As payment, I'll make a character on your world and do the first mission of your nation, and give you all the reward money.
How's the reception in Japan? Seems to be getting only bad reviews on amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B003UHVPDG/
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B003UHVPDG/
I'm really enjoying the game thus far...instanced ENEMIES, as opposed to instanced areas, is a great way to prevent mob competition while still maintaining the feel of an MMO.
Overblown problems:
Leve cooldown - Not only has it been reduced, but once you can freely teleport to the three cities, you expand the amount you can do in that period.
Surplus/fatigue - Who the fuck has even hit this?
Mouse - obviously fixed, with hardware.
Underblown problems:
Menu lag - still unacceptable. Every discipline is suffering, but having to wait three seconds after EVERY button press makes crafting/gathering fairly frustrating to deal with.
Auction House - Jesus fucking Christ. We're supposed to walk around a "Ward" with three hundred random asshole NPCs in the vague hope we're to find what we need? Holy shit. If Square-Enix doesn't make either an AH or a comprehensive bazaar search system soon, this game is going to lose subscribers by the droves.
Coding: I have a super baller GFX card, and my performance still sucks. Boooo, framerate!
Overblown problems:
Leve cooldown - Not only has it been reduced, but once you can freely teleport to the three cities, you expand the amount you can do in that period.
Surplus/fatigue - Who the fuck has even hit this?
Mouse - obviously fixed, with hardware.
Underblown problems:
Menu lag - still unacceptable. Every discipline is suffering, but having to wait three seconds after EVERY button press makes crafting/gathering fairly frustrating to deal with.
Auction House - Jesus fucking Christ. We're supposed to walk around a "Ward" with three hundred random asshole NPCs in the vague hope we're to find what we need? Holy shit. If Square-Enix doesn't make either an AH or a comprehensive bazaar search system soon, this game is going to lose subscribers by the droves.
Coding: I have a super baller GFX card, and my performance still sucks. Boooo, framerate!
Awntawn said:
Yup to make leather you have to be 5 ranks higher than you do to use it, some stupid logic there, how is that going to work later on :S
http://ffxiv.yg.com/
http://db.ffxivarchives.com/
Jonnyram said:
It's kinda silly, from a design perspective, in that there are recipes only useful for second-generation crafters. As long as there's alternatives and it's not an FFXI-smithing-style "you're gonna grind it ANYWAY" model, I don't mind, though.
Edit: Lag problems are going to be universal now, and in the future unpredictably related to server populations. Just go with who you know.
Most of the lag in game now is due to excessive polling of whjat other players are doing anyway, so by avoiding crowded areas it'll improve.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Nice work making the monies, GAF. When we can start doing the same thing with rank 20 leves, we'll be rollin' in the dough.
IonicSnake
Banned
Anyone know where I can get the materials for the Bronze Dagger?
Played with my character a little yesterday. Here she is.
Lolo Landerlu by Londaluu, on Flickr
BTW, Thanks gaf for all your help.
Lolo Landerlu by Londaluu, on Flickr
BTW, Thanks gaf for all your help.
Actually I think the logic for a lot of things is that you're not supposed to make them the first time around. Seems to be in general the stuff that sells on NPC vendors. It's like how the rank 10ish weapons all require rank 20 crafts to make; on your first trip you're supposed to buy it for a shitloat off the NPCs. Then when you're levelling your next job, you get stuff cheaper from crafting. I ended up just buying myself a Bronze Labrys for 43k off the LL weapon vendor after spending all that time experimenting in OB on how to make one so that I would be prepared for retail :lolJinko said:
Oh is there any place with info on which tool you should use for which synth? I always feel like I'm using the wrong tool, and I often forget what I used and thus wasting trial and error attempts :x
I've been searching various XIV and S-E sites and have come to the conclusion that if a friend gives me a buddy pass and I can't borrow their disc to install then I simply can't play the trial.
What's up with that? They had a downloadable beta client, why not offer a digital retail client?
What's up with that? They had a downloadable beta client, why not offer a digital retail client?
Munba said:
My problem was I found this to be the reason why I couldn't pay for the game's monthly fee:
Guatemala by Londaluu, on Flickr
SE had my Country as Guatemala, they have restrictions on how they can pay for their monthly fee and also, I was concerned about not being able to register expansions or be excluded from certain services because I'm marked as Guatemala and not United States.
So I sent a request for a chat session with someone from help and support. This was the out come:
seissues by Londaluu, on Flickr
Nothing got resolved from the chat session, so I called help and support. I again received no help and was suggested to talk with Click and Pay to help me. While I was talking, the support man, hung up on me.
So I was reading Gaf and someone suggested to use the Free TRIAL (lol) code. I made a new ID and put in the free trail code and it worked perfectly. Now I can play, but I leave behind my other SE service ID, My SE members account, my helmet code, and my Beta Tester account because they were all linked to my Old SE service account. But I will start anew.
With my old SE service account I requested for it to be restarted, but it only just gives me a new FFXIV game code.
rules by Londaluu, on Flickr
So I'll just give it to someone that I know, that would like to play the game and needs a code.
BooJoh said:
Its because you need what is on the disk. If you can find on a website somewhere what is on the disk and the client for download, you do not need your friends disk. Just make sure to download the game, the client, and the patches, and have a SE service ID and you should be fine, and able to input your free trial code.
DrForester
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So is there a trick to getting the Asuran Armband? I entered the code and it shows up in my account.
I created my character before I entered it, do I just need to re-make my character?
I created my character before I entered it, do I just need to re-make my character?
Does anyone know how to change the client language?
I had it installed as Japanese, with my Japanese registration code and Square Enix ID, but now the client is running fully in English. Button/graphical settings in the FINAL FANTASY XIV Config no longer do anything, either. This is not cool.
Maybe I'll just reinstall...
Yes.
I had it installed as Japanese, with my Japanese registration code and Square Enix ID, but now the client is running fully in English. Button/graphical settings in the FINAL FANTASY XIV Config no longer do anything, either. This is not cool.
Maybe I'll just reinstall...
DrForester said:
Yes.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Aokage said:
Good thing I only played for about 90 minutes total so far. Thanks
I don't know if this has anything to do with your issue but when I was scouring the support site I ran across this bit: "* The language setting of the operating system will be used to determine the default language setting for the release version of FINAL FANTASY XIV. "Aokage said:
Whatre the lowest specs you guys are playing at? I really want to play this game, but it played like crap on the beta on my computer.
I only have a laptop and my specs are:
I5 450m 2.4ghz Turbo Boost to 2.66
ATI 5650
4gb memory
I like this controller :O
I only have a laptop and my specs are:
I5 450m 2.4ghz Turbo Boost to 2.66
ATI 5650
4gb memory
I like this controller :O
demosthenes
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Jonnyram said:
This is how the game is built I think more than anything. The armory system in just changing a weapon but also crafting especially early on really helps you move up in the physical levels.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
I hope they bring back Mog Houses.
asdad123 said:
Pentium Dual Core 1.8ghz (6300 model?)
2gb RAM
8800GT (512mb?)
Win XP
Everything in my PC is 4 years old minus the video card and I can run the game at a high res with high textures. Turned down AA though. I thought my PC would explode, but it's running quite nice and looks very pretty.
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